Cross-Border Bankruptcy Issues (2014 New York City Bankruptcy Conference) - Steven G. Panagos, Lisa J. Donohue, Kathryn A. Coleman, Jay M. Goffman, Hon. Allan L. Gropper, Daniel A. Lowenthal

Business Track: Case Law Update (2014 Annual Spring Meeting) - Roger G. Schwartz, Hon. Shelley C. Chapman, Francis A. Monaco Jr., My Chi To

BK 360 Revisited: ABI Past-Presidents Panel on Current Developments in the News (2014 Annual Spring Meeting) - James T. Markus, Robert J. Keach, William J. Rochelle

Labor and Employment/International Committees: Labor and Employment Issues in Cross-Border Cases (2014 Annual Spring Meeting) - Tracy C. Sandler, Justice Francis J.C. Newbould, James H.M. Sprayregen, D. Farrington Yates

The Outer Limits (of U.S. Bankruptcy Court Jurisdiction) (2014 Caribbean Insolvency Symposium) - Brian J. Fox, Hon. Robert D. Drain, Ira L. Herman, Laura Hatfield, Paul J. Ricotta

Ethics: The New World Order — A Comparison of Ethical Issues with Respect to Retention and Compensation of Restructuring Professionals in the U.S./Caribbean (2014 Caribbean Insolvency Symposium) - William T. Reid IV, Mariaelena Gayo-Guitian, John K.F. Delaney QC, J. Ross McDonough, Hon. Pamela Pepper

FEATURE: Section 109(a)’s Jurisdictional Requirements Applied to Chapter 15 (citation: R. Adam Swick and Paul Harle, Section 109(a)’s Jurisdictional Requirements Applied to Chapter 15, XXXIII ABI Journal 3, 30, 92-93, March 2014) - R. Adam Swick and Paul Harle

With U.S. corporate tax rates among the highest in the world, U.S.-based companies with international operations regularly look for structuring opportunities to reduce the exposure of their overseas earnings to U.S. taxes. http://www.kirkland.com/files/MA_Update/041014.pdf

On Wednesday, April 9, 2014, the U.S. Senate confirmed Terrell McSweeny as a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The Senate vote, 95-to-1, reflects broad bipartisan support for Commissioner McSweeny’s nomination. With the addition of Commissioner McSweeny, a Democrat, the FTC will operate with the full complement of five Commissioners.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit (Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Puerto Rico) on 24 July 2013 ruled that Sun Capital Partners was jointly liable with one of its portfolio companies for a $4.5 million withdrawal liability from a multi-employer pension plan